Call for Papers
SCOPE
Technology has been essential for the advancement in cardiology diagnostic and treatment since the first accurate recording of the electrocardiogram and its development as a clinical tool in 1895, also the year of the discovery of X-rays by W.K.Röntgen, followed by ultrasound application for medical diagnosis by Dussik in 1941, and many other technologies. In the XXI century significant advances continue to be witnessed even more frequently and it seems evident that there is a very high potential of improving healthcare quality by combining medical knowledge in the area of cardiology with engineering technologies, especially those derived from communications, electronics and informatics.
This congress intends to be a meeting point of both academics and practitioners, in order to promote the exchange ideas and developed synergies.
Authors are invited to submit reports on their research work that highlight new advancements on the use of cardiac technologies either in general or regarding a particular case or application. New ideas on how to approach cardiac monitoring, diagnosis and treatment challenges and issues, using electronics, telecommunications or informatics, will arise from the congress. Papers describing case studies, advanced prototypes, systems, tools and techniques and general survey papers indicating future directions are encouraged. Papers should describe original work in any of the areas listed below. Accepted complete papers, presented at the congress by one of the authors, will be published in the Proceedings of Cardiotechnix, with ISBN, both on paper and digital support. All presented papers will be indexed and included in the SCITEPRESS digital library for increased visibility.
Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. Both full research reports and work-in-progress reports are welcome. There will be both oral and poster sessions.
Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas:
2. ELECTROCARDIOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING
3. SURGICAL TECHNOLOGIES AND ADVANCED ROBOTICS
4. ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY: NEW PACING AND ABLATION TECHNICS
5. COMPUTING AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS IN CARDIOLOGY
- Echocardiography (3D, Intravascular Ultrasound, etc)
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Computed Tomography Angiography
- Coronary Catheterization
- Positron Emission Tomography
- Long Term ECG Monitoring
- Implantable Holter
- Risk Stratification Markers (Heart Rate Variability, Heart Rate Turbulence, etc)
- Ventricular Repolarization Analysis
- Blood Pressure Monitoring
- Sleep Apnea Monitoring
- Oxygen Saturation
- Glycemic Prophile
- Minimally-invasive Cardiac Valve Surgery
- Intravenous Valve Replacement (TAVI)
- Minimally Invasive Cardiac Revascularization
- Ventricular Assistance Devices
- Mechanical Hearts
- Video-directed and Robotic Instruments for Surgery
- Wireless Pacemaker
- Multisite CRT Pacing
- CRT Optimization (Echo, RMN, Sonar)
- Atrial Fibrillation Ablation (Radiofrequency vs Cryoablation)
- Ventricular Arrhythmias Ablation Techniques
- Robotic Navigation Systems (CARTO)
- Subcutaneous Defibrillators
- External Defibrillators
- Telemedicine, Real-time Cardiac Monitoring and Patient Management Systems
- Home Monitoring in Heart Failure, Nursing Informatics
- Remote Control of Implantable Devices
- Mobile Devices and Ubiquity, Data Privacy and Security
- Decision Support Systems, Remote Data Analysis
- Ontologies and Knowledge Representation, Data Mining and Statistical Studies
- Public Health Informatics, e-Learning and Education
KEYNOTE LECTURES
CARDIOTECHNIX 2015 will have several invited keynote speakers, who are internationally recognized experts in their areas. Their names are not yet confirmed.
PAPER SUBMISSION
Authors should submit either a complete paper or an extended abstract in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, addressing one or several of the congress areas or topics. Each submission should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable. To facilitate the double-blind paper evaluation method, authors are kindly requested to produce and provide their entry WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors, including the authors’ personal details, eventual acknowledgments and any other reference that may disclose the authors’ identity.
Only original contributions should be submitted. Authors are advised to read INSTICC's ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism thoroughly before submitting and must make sure that their submissions do not substantially overlap work which has been published elsewhere or simultaneously submitted to a journal or another conference with proceedings. Papers or Extended Abstracts that contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews.
Authors can submit their work in the form of a Complete Paper , representing completed and validated research, or as an Extended Abstract. All entries must be submitted through the online submission platform PRIMORIS and should follow the instructions and templates that can be found under Guidelines and Templates. After the submission has been successfully completed, authors will receive an automatic confirmation e-mail.
All accepted Extended Abstracts will be published in the Book of Abstracts of the congress and on CD-ROM support, without ISBN. All accepted Complete Papers (full and short) will be published in the Congress Proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support. All papers presented at the congress venue will also be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library. SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef and every paper is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier). The Congress Proceedings will be submitted to appropriate indexes for indexation.
Authors Notification: September 1, 2015 (expired)
Camera Ready and Registration: September 14, 2015
Authors Notification: October 6, 2015
Camera Ready and Registration: October 13, 2015
SECRETARIAT
CARDIOTECHNIX Secretariat
Address: Av. D. Manuel I, 27A, 2º esq.
2910-595 Setúbal - Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 100 033
Fax: +351 265 520 186
e-mail: [email protected]
Web: http://www.cardiotechnix.org/
P. A. Doevendans, UMC Utrecht, Netherlands
Edward A. Hulten, Brigham and Women's Hospital, United States
Riyadh Abu-Sulaiman, King Abdulaziz Cardiac Center, Saudi Arabia
Dan Adam, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Jean-Marie Aerts, M3-BIORES, Katholieke Universitëit Leuven, Belgium
Fabio Angeli, Department of Cardiology, Italy
Antonis Armoundas, Massachusetts General Hospital, Cardiovascular Research Center, United States
Riccardo Barbieri, Massachusetts General Hospital - Harvard Medical School, United States
Omer Berenfeld, University of Michigan, United States
Sandro Betocchi, Federico II University, Italy
Valmik Bhargava, UC San Diego, United States
Dinesh Bhatia, North Eastern Hill University, India
Gil Bolotin, RAMBAM Health Care, Israel
Salvador Borges-Neto, Duke University, United States
Francis Castanie, IRIT, France
Sergio Cerutti, Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy
Jaw-Wen Chen, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan
Ivaylo Christov, Institute of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering, Bulgarian Academy of Science, Bulgaria
Vaclav Chudacek, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
Albert C. S. Chung, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Miguel Coimbra, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Fernando Cruz-Roldán, Universidad de Alcalá, Spain
Ingo Dähnert, Heart Center, University of Leipzig, Germany
Haim Danenberg, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Israel
Buddhadeb Dawn, University of Kansas, United States
Mirko De Melis, Medtronic Bakken Research Center – Maastricht, Netherlands
Milind Desai, Cleveland Clinic, United States
Hans-Dirk Düngen, Charité University Hospital, Germany
Pedro Pablo Escobar, Faculty of Engineering, Universidad Nacional del Centro, Argentina
Markus Ferrari, HSK, Dr. Horst Schmidt Klinik, Wiesbaden, Germany
Marcos Formica, Faculty of Engineering, Argentina
Dimitrios Fotiadis, University of Ioannina, Greece
Miguel Angel García Gonzalez, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
José Ángel García-Sáenz, Hospital Clinico San Carlos, Spain
Panagiotis Georgoulias, University of Thessaly, Greece
Edouard Gerbaud, CHU de Bordeaux / Bordeaux University, France
B.-D. Gonska, st.Vincentius Hospital Karlsruhe, Germany
Craig H. Selzman, University of Utah, United States
Maki Habib, The American University in Cairo, Egypt
Arun Holden, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Stephen Nicholas Hunyor, The University of Sydney, Australia
Leo Hwa Liang, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Fumiaki Ikeno, Stanford University Stanford, United States
Marko Ivan Turina, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland
Piotr J. Slomka, .Cedars Sinai Medical Center, United States
Hanjoong Jo, Emory University School of Medicine, United States
Leo Joskowicz, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Y. James Kang, University of Louisville, United States
Amin Karami, University at Buffalo, United States
Amos Katz, Barzilai Medical Center, Israel
James Ker, .University of Pretoria, South Africa
Jonghwa Kim, University of Augsburg, Germany
Masafumi Kitakaze, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Japan
Ondrej Krejcar, University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic
Vaclav Kremen, Czech Technical Universtity in Prague, Czech Republic
Gautam Kumar, Emory University, United States
Jakub Kuzilek, Dept. of Cybernetics, FEE, CTU in Prague, Czech Republic
Antoine LaFont, INSERM, France
Shaheen Lakhan, Global Neuroscience Initiative Foundation, United States
Jason Matthew Lazar, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, United States
Martin M. LeWinter, University of Vermont, United States
Lenka Lhotska, Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Republic
Hongen Liao, Tsinghua University, China
Rui Lima, University of Minho (UM), Portugal
Shing-Jong Lin, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan
Emanuela Teresa Locati, Niguarda Hospital, Italy
Lisandro Lovisolo, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Andrew Lowe, AUT University, New Zealand
Luca Mainardi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
María Martín Fernaández, Cardiology Department, Spain
M. Möckel, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
Jorge E. Monzon, Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, Argentina
Raimes Moraes, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
Umberto Morbiducci, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Kayvan Najarian, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
Hani Najm, King Abdulaziz Cardiac Center, Saudi Arabia
Khurram Nasir, Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for Preventive Cardiology, United States
Joerg Neuzner, Klinikum Kassel, Germany
Giandomenico Nollo, Università degli Studi di Trento, Italy
Abraham Otero, Universidad San Pablo CEU, Spain
Albert P. Rocchini, University of Michigan, United States
Rui Pedro Paiva, University of Coimbra, Portugal
José Palma, University of Murcia, Spain
Salvador Pané i Vidal, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Switzerland
Sever Pasca, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Kerem Pekkan, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Tuan Pham, University of Aizu, Japan
Matej Podbregar, University of Ljubljana, Medical faculty, Slovenia
Octavian Postolache, Institute of Telecommunications, Portugal
Lakshmi Prasad Dasi, Colorado State University, United States
Lu Qi, Harvard School of Public Health, United States
David R. Holmes, Jr., Mayo Clinic, United States
Pascal R. Verdonck, Ghent University, Belgium
José Joaquín Rieta, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
Ana Paula Rocha, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Jesús María Rodríguez Presedo, Department of Electronics and Computer Science University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Tao Rui, The Affiliated People's Hospital of Jiangsu University, China
Seonghan Ryu, Hannam University, Korea, Republic of
Ovidio Salvetti, National Research Council of Italy - CNR, Italy
Eigil Samset, GE Vingmed Ultrasound, Norway
Despina Sanoudou, Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Greece
Alessandro Santo Bortone, Universitá degli Studi di Bari, Italy
Roberto Sassi, Università degli studi di Milano, Italy
Chutham Sawigun, Mahanakorn University of Technology, Thailand
Paul Schoenhagen, Cleveland Clinic, United States
Heinz-Peter Schultheiss, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Germany
Tapio Seppänen, University of Oulu, Finland
Imad Sheiban, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy
Y. N. Singh, Institute of Engineering & Technology, Lucknow, India
Elsayed Z. Soliman, Wake Forest School of Medicine, United States
Andrea Székely, Semmelweis University Budapest, Hungary
Mika P. Tarvainen, University of Eastern Finland, Finland
Demetri Terzopoulos, University of California, Los Angeles, United States
Matthias Thielmann, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Hana Totary-Jain, University of South Florida, United States
Carlos M. Travieso, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Wei-Chuan Tsai, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Taiwan
Christian Ukena, Universitätsklinikum des Saarlandes, Germany
Maseeh uz Zaman, (1) Aga Khan Univerisyt Hospital (AKUH) (2) Karachi Institute of Heart Diseases (KIHD); (3) National Institute of cardiovascular Diseasese (NICVD), Pakistan
Tofy V. Mussivand, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Canada
Rodrigo Varejão Andreão, Ifes, Brazil
Xosé A. Vila, University of Vigo, Spain
Jürgen Weese, Philips GmbH Innovative Technologies, Germany
Lei Wei, Indiana University, United States
Michael Y. Henein, Umea University, Sweden
Ikuo Yokoyama, International University of Health and Welfare, Japan
Chun Yuan, University of Washington, United States
Peter Zioupos, Cranfield University, United Kingdom